"Courting death!" Third Elder watched, furious, as Lu Jingming slaughtered his men.
He didn't care about their lives, but losing so many would make him answerable to the sect leader.
"Corpse Lightning!" Third Elder's first soul ring flashed, sending a black-grey bolt at Lu Jingming.
Though just his first soul skill, as a Title Douluo, even his weakest move was deadly.
Lu Jingming coolly intercepted it with his black spear, the tip crackling with black-red lightning.
Thunder exploded, shockwaves rippling outward. A foul green miasma drifted toward Lu Jingming, but he dispelled it with a pulse of purple lightning.
Without pause, Lu Jingming raised his left hand and unleashed his hundred-thousand-year soul bone skill—Dominion.
Space warped as crushing gravity slammed down on Third Elder, dropping him to his knees, spitting blood from internal injuries.
Third Elder looked up, eyes red with murderous rage—being forced to kneel and injured by a Soul King was an unprecedented humiliation.
His soul power blazed as he struggled to resist the gravity.
"I'll tear your soul out and burn it for a hundred years!" he howled.
Dominion was powerful, but the vast gap in soul power meant it could only catch Third Elder off guard temporarily.
Lu Jingming only smiled; he hadn't expected to suppress a Title Douluo with a single skill.
But making a Title Douluo kneel and cough blood was already a miracle.
Even Nan Qiuqiu and the others were stunned; a Soul King injuring a Title Douluo was unheard of.
Third Elder, enraged, unleashed his fourth soul skill—Demonic Skull Seven Stars—summoning seven evil green lightning skulls to attack.
Lu Jingming responded with seven jets of black light from his spear, obliterating the skulls.
Everyone was shocked—a Soul King had just neutralized a Title Douluo's fourth soul skill!
"This isn't possible!" Third Elder was in disbelief.
"This is like annihilation energy, but even stronger!" Nan Shuishui realized, comparing it to the Earth Dragon Sect's own annihilation abilities, but Lu Jingming's was far superior.
Even as a Soul Douluo, she struggled to eliminate enemy soul skills directly—yet Lu Jingming, a Soul King, could instantly erase Title Douluo-level attacks.
"In that case—Furious Whip of Thunder!" Third Elder, losing all reason, unleashed his sixth soul skill.
A grey-purple whip lashed out, summoning countless wailing wraiths and saturating the air with a scorched, acrid stench.
The massive attack enveloped Nan Qiuqiu and the others as well.
Lu Jingming frowned. He might survive, but the others would die.
"Xue Di!" he called without hesitation.
Facing a Title Douluo was too much, even after his earlier surprise attacks.
As the whip descended, Snow Empress appeared like a white phantom, gracefully raising a hand.
A terrifying cold instantly froze the attack, ice spreading back toward Third Elder.
Realizing the danger, he immediately stopped channeling soul power and fled, dragging Fourth Elder with him.
But Snow Empress wouldn't let them go. She unleashed a storm of cold that froze everything for miles around—the two elders included—leaving only Lu Jingming and his group unfrozen.
Her mastery of cold was absolute, befitting the ruler of the extreme north.